Sentences with phrase «very center of our galaxy»

The resulting sharp observations clearly showed that the closer the stars were to the very center of the galaxy, the faster they orbited; and the innermost stars were moving as fast as.5 percent the speed of light, or about 900 miles per second.

ALMA's light - gathering capabilities increase the EHT's ability to detect the faint light from the very center of our galaxy.

Not exact matches

It means that the earth on which we live is not the center of the physical universe, but a comparatively small planet revolving round a very average - sized star, which in turn is but one of a hundred thousand million others forming the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that part of the universe that our existing telescopes have so far penetrated contains about a hundred million star systems or nebulae, similar to our galaxy.

We see very strong evidence right at the center of our own galaxy.

Previously, astronomers have used x-ray telescopes to observe strong winds very near the massive black holes at galactic centers (artist's concept, inset) and infrared wavelengths to detect the vast outflows of cool gas (bluish haze in artist's concept, main image) from such galaxies as a whole, but they've never done so in the same galaxy.

The tendency of very massive galaxies to contain a high fraction of low - mass stars at their centers is a recent discovery, and is still in some ways controversial, but is reinforced by the work reported here.

New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

Using NASA's super-sensitive Chandra X-ray space telescope, a team of astronomers led by Q. Daniel Wang at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has solved a long - standing mystery about why most super massive black holes (SMBH) at the centers of galaxies have such a low accretion rate — that is, they swallow very little of the cosmic gases available and instead act as if they are on a severe diet.

The center of the galaxy M 82 at very long radio wavelengths (2.5 m / 118 MHz [orange] and 1.9 m / 154 MHz [blue]-RRB- is depicted.

The sharp Hubble and Keck Observatory images allowed the research teams to separate out the background source star from its neighbors in the very crowded star field in the direction of our galaxy's center.

Quasars are very luminous objects powered by accretion of gas into supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies.

«What we observe in this galaxy is very much like a massive ocean wave barreling toward shore until it interacts with the shallows, causing it to lose momentum and dump all of its water and sand on the beach,» said Bruce Elmegreen, a scientist with IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and co-author on the paper.

Kapteyn found that our Sun lies at the very center of a nearly spherical distribution of stars, and he incorrectly concluded that we lie at the center of the galaxy.

See images of new observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope showing a gas cloud ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

«We expect dark matter to accumulate in the innermost regions of the Milky Way and other galaxies, which is why finding such a compact signal is very exciting,» lead researcher Pierrick Martin, an astrophysicist at the National Center for Scientific Research and the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, said in a statement.

The research team led by Satoru Iguchi, Associate Professor of NAOJ, succeeded in observing a very close binary black hole in the center of 3C66B (a giant elliptical galaxy within the cluster A347) just before its black hole merger.

A peek at the center of our galaxy, courtesy of the ESO's Very Large Telescope, with Sagittarius A *, our galactic black hole, and S2, a daredevil star that orbits relatively close to Sgr A *, highlighted.

The position of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, as well as the giant star S2, are shown (inset) in this near - infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

In fact, the bloated core is more than three times larger than the center of other very luminous galaxies.

But we haven't fully connected our theories to what we observe, especially with quasars, these incredibly bright centers of very distant galaxies that serve as beacons of the early universe.

Rufus remains the biggest ass in the galaxy, his self - centered quips and firm belief that he's the greatest thing ever making him a very take him or leave him kind of hero.